![]() I may opt to send text messages in Hangouts at some point because that app works seamlessly on either phone. I don’t mind not being able to instantly tether my Pixelbook to my iPhone because it’s pretty simple to enable the hotspot mode in iOS.īut Android Messages for Web? That’s not happening either. (Note: This article was originally published in 2018, prior to when Apple allowed you to set third-party apps as a default.)Īnd with Google recently adding Phone Hub functionality, I also miss out on some goodies there with my iPhone. To get around the latter issue, I add Evernote to the mix: Between the Evernote extension for Chrome and the ability to share web pages to Evernote in either iOS or Android, I’m pretty much covered. So that’s a bit of a hitch in my workflow when it comes to bookmarks, the Continue Reading function in Chrome OS, and saving articles for offline reading in the browser. The one app I don’t use too much on the iPhone is Chrome, mainly because you can’t set it to be the default browser in iOS. Because all of the Google mobile apps I use - such as Drive, Docs, Sheets, Photos (which syncs your iOS device photos to Google’s cloud), Google+, Keep, YouTube, Hangouts, Contacts, Assistant, and Home, to name a few - are tied to my Google account, the data on my phone is always the same as the data on my Chromebook. ![]() And it keeps all of my data in sync between the Chromebook and my phone. What this does is give me a similar experience on my handset, regardless of which phone I’m carrying. I use Google’s apps on the iPhone and don’t sync any of my data to iCloud. The answer is pretty simple to be honest, although you do give up a few features. But when I have both the Google laptop and Apple’s handset, people often come up to me and ask: “How can you use an iPhone with a Chromebook?” Sure, I use Android too: I have about a dozen Android phones from the past few years to choose from and I swap my SIM around regularly. When I’m out and about with my Chrome, I often carry an iPhone. ![]()
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